I found out that facebook use whats called a big table. Is there a way that I can use this “Big table” database in an application that I am using?
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I found out that facebook use whats called a big table. Is there a way that I can use this “Big table” database in an application that I am using?
Yes you can. The project is called Cassandra. Facebook just opensourced it. You can download it from here. But be very afraid, because the project is still under highly active development.
If you are going to use it from other language like C#, you also need thrift to talk to cassandra.